| Ink Stained Fingers ( @ 2007-04-11 13:41:00 |
Situation on Inquill.net
I spoke too soon regarding problems. While I don't have any arguments with Netfirms, their way of running CGI scripts means that none of our scripts work, which basically means that the main site is nothing but a backup location of files. I've worked with the auto-archive support people, I've tried all sorts of things, and in order for our site to work, I'd have to go into the code for each cgi form and change location info. Also, every single story would have to be edited because of the Comment link at the bottom of the page. Since we have clsoe to 4000 stories, that ain't happening.
So here's the deal - once again, I need a cheap webhosting company that is reliable and can support our needs (see earlier posts). We currently have the inkquill.com on Dreamhost and, while I can put the inkquill.net there, too, I'd rather separate them in case Dreamhost goes down. We've been with slashcity, ipowerweb, and now netfirms, so those are also out of the picture. And by cheap I mean really, really cheap - I've now paid for a year of inkquill.net on two services that we can't use, I'll have to shell out for another year in this move, we've got domain name renewal coming up in July, and then Dreamhost renewal for another year in the fall. We currently have two $5 a month subscriptions (thank you!) but the rest is my donation to the fandom. So - cheap, allows cgi bins to be set under subdirectories, about 1GB of space and 20-30GB bandwidth, at least 5 email accounts.
Thanks!
I spoke too soon regarding problems. While I don't have any arguments with Netfirms, their way of running CGI scripts means that none of our scripts work, which basically means that the main site is nothing but a backup location of files. I've worked with the auto-archive support people, I've tried all sorts of things, and in order for our site to work, I'd have to go into the code for each cgi form and change location info. Also, every single story would have to be edited because of the Comment link at the bottom of the page. Since we have clsoe to 4000 stories, that ain't happening.
So here's the deal - once again, I need a cheap webhosting company that is reliable and can support our needs (see earlier posts). We currently have the inkquill.com on Dreamhost and, while I can put the inkquill.net there, too, I'd rather separate them in case Dreamhost goes down. We've been with slashcity, ipowerweb, and now netfirms, so those are also out of the picture. And by cheap I mean really, really cheap - I've now paid for a year of inkquill.net on two services that we can't use, I'll have to shell out for another year in this move, we've got domain name renewal coming up in July, and then Dreamhost renewal for another year in the fall. We currently have two $5 a month subscriptions (thank you!) but the rest is my donation to the fandom. So - cheap, allows cgi bins to be set under subdirectories, about 1GB of space and 20-30GB bandwidth, at least 5 email accounts.
Thanks!